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SAFETY
Goal S1: Save all mariners in imminent danger.
FY99 Target: Save at least 93% of all mariners reported in imminent
danger.
Measure: Lives saved/lives saved + lives lost after Coast Guard
notification.
Measurement Issues: The Coast Guard strives to save as many lives as
possible. Data is obtained from the CG Search and Rescue Marine
Information System. Program managers believe the data collection system
slightly understates the number of lives lost. Thus, the denominator of
the measure is understated, which produces a percentage of lives saved
that may be higher than the actual percentage. The system is currently
skewed upward by a surge of migrants interdicted at sea. Without migrant
cases, the data point drops to 95%. FY94-96 data is currently being
validated to remove discrepancies. This goal measures Coast Guard rescue
response activities. Other goals cover Coast Guard prevention activities.
Selected Program Standards/Customer Service Standards:
Search and Rescue unit ready to proceed within 30 minutes of
notification of distress.
Search and Rescue unit on scene, at datum, or in the search area
within 90 minutes of getting underway.
Causal Factors to be Addressed:
Severe weather.
Inability to communicate or delay in distress notification.
Unsafe operation of vessel (poorly loaded, poor navigation.)
Unsafe equipment.
Strategies to Achieve Target:
Ongoing Strategies:
Improve the knowledge and skills of mariners by conducting boardings,
courtesy safety examinations, and public service message campaigns.
Increase carriage of additional distress notification, alerting, and
locating equipment, and survival gear.
Improve rescue coordination and effectiveness by partnering with local
state and international agencies that have response responsibilities.
Use research and development to improve search planning, including
improvements to search theory models, analysis of current and wind
variability, and night search tactics and sensor performance.
Develop waterway safety initiatives in cooperation with other agencies
New Strategies:
that permits distress, safety, law enforcement interaction between the
Coast Guard and mariners.
Efficiency Strategies:
Replace aging assets with more capable ones to reduce the overall
number of assets, people, and maintenance resources required to provide
the same level of performance.
Continue the Coast Guard's Deepwater project to award up to three
contracts to develop an integrated system of surface, air, command and
control, intelligence, and logistics systems to provide the functional
capability to carry out the Coast Guard's statutory mandates in the
deepwater area of responsibility. Concurrent with this effort, the
Administration will begin a Presidential Roles and Missions review of
future Coast Guard missions. The Coast Guard will avoid one-for-one
replacement of its existing assets, and achieve efficiencies by
capitalizing on better technology.
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